Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-01
NEBRASKA.

West Point has "a population or 2,5Oo.
The Norfolk Board OF Trade dissolved and
reorganiz-i Msuda3.
rnree pris pners escaped from the jail at
Beatr'ce Saturday night.
The new Methodist church at Crete will be
dedicated early in October.
The Omaha Waterworss company have
bought out both the stock yarts and South
Omaha Land company's waterworks pian: NJ
South Omaha.
The Esmond hotel, at Omaha, caught Ere
Friday, and was damaged about 5000. The
daring iremen did heroic work u rescuing
ladies from the third floor.
The university at Lincoln opened this week
with an increased attendance, pupils coming
from all parts Of the state, indicating that the
institution IS popular everywhere.
John Nash, q farmer near Nebraska City,
went down into q well after a pig which had
fallen in, and WAS overcome by foul air and
expired before he could be rescued.
Mrs. Guy r. Wilbur, wife Of ex-District
Attorney Wilbur, OF Harrington, horse
whipped Postmaster Swing Of that place. The
trouble grew out Of an assault made upon
one Of Mrs. Wibur's children by Swing.
Steve r tynolds, a gay and festive barber of
Columbus, skipped Monday leaving his third
wife a widow. He was also her third 'hus-
band and neither OF them are thirty years old.
A daughter Of ex Gov. English, Of Connec-
ticpt, was In an Omaha police court Monday
charged with larceny. But according to a
Herald reporter the charge was undoubtedly
false.
John Rash, a prominent farmer living ten
miles north Of Nebraska City, was overcome
by gas last night at the bottom OF q we'll
which he went into after a young pig that had
fallen in, and died almost Immediately on be-
ing brought TO surface.
The rUmored assignment of Emanuel FIST,
Wholesale druggist at Hastings, was incor-
by fire a month ago, and not having received
his insurance was somewhat ~cramped, but his
financial standing is secure nevertheless.
The Burliugton and Missouri is rushing
work On the yards OF the exchange at South
Omaha and expects to have them IN good
shape ere snow flies. II the Union Pacific de.
lays work much longer the Burlington aud
Missouri will have a depot completed first.
TIE female ftrts Of Fsirbury are getting so
bold and numerous that they plague the staid
and pious people at church. The Republican
declares that handkerchief flrtations in front
of the congregation ''are uuseemly, uncalled
for and distasteful." They should take a back
seat.
One of the speakers 8. The Adventist camp.
meeting at Grand Island expressed much en-
csuraeencCt O. the growth c A%G7eEtisC. /:
had extended within the last ttw yesIs il 70
nearly every country IN Europe. TIE thurcf
has a large publishing house at Christian 6,
Norway.
In railway circles there Ia a suspicion that
the dismissal OF the four young lady clerks
from the ticket room at Union Pacific head
quarters, at Omaha, is the Inauguration OF an
anti-female clerk policy in some departments,
and that as fast as the lady clerks resign
hereafter from them their places will be flied
by men.
While excsvating for the purpose OF setting
turbine wheels. Engine Ger O'Brien, Of the
Kearney Canal company uncovered Monday,
at a depth of thirty-two feet from the surface,
numerous parts Of a observation-disclosures, some
Of which measured nesrly forty-tive inches in
circumference Steps are being taken 10 con-
tinue the search for the missing parts.
N. II. Parks, editor OF the Scotia Herald,
was Friday arrested on a charge OF criminal
libel, preferred against him by H. z. Beeman,
Gator Of the North I.oGp Advocate. The rIc
iimingry examination will be held mex. We'd
nesday ,etore Abe Artell, iustic CT the
peace. Mr.. Parks Is * Q county Judge OF the
county and Democratic r0mis ee FOR rc.G,oc'
ton, ana It is thought that the arrest H. q
move o his enemies.
Charles Ward, alias Burt Johnson, reached
Lincoln with Doris & Colvin's circus Tues
day, of which he is an employe. He was in a
helpless condition from a bullet wound in the
abdomen, which he received the night pre-
vious at Beatrice. He was taken to the city
hospital, waere he died in great agony We'd
nesday. Up TO a short time before his death
he held HE own counsel as to how he received
the wound, but when he found he had to die
he confessed that in a quarrel with o prostl-
tute, who was following the show, she shot
him and escaped before he realized what che
had done.
Lindolr Special, Sept. 81: A workingman
named Smith was horribly mutilated IN a re-
N irksble manner this evening. On O street,
at the corner OF Ninth, hanging from a tele-
phone pole and lying along the ground for q
distance, was a broken telephone wire, which
had In some manner become crossed, or In
with one Of tie electric light wires.
As Smith was passing along the street he saw
the wire burning, and attracted by the
strange appearance, and not realizing what ii
was, evidently took hold Of IL to ascertain
what ii meant. The shock ne received was
terrific, and his shrieks brought huadreds to
the street. He could not loosep his hold on
the wire, aud II burned bis bagt To TIE bone.
Ia his writings and contorttons the charged
" re IN eontac. With his head burnipg
out one eve and laying the SD of his "a c
open. Wherever 1t struck his b 'dy It cut like
aknifa. \ hysteEder, realizing the peril Of
the man, ran to MIN, grabbing htr to pun
him from tho wire, bus 10y 1he shock he re-
caived warn he came ia contact With the body
OF the mln ne was knocked ten feet into the